Rodents on board at time most likely primary source and continued exposure to Hantavirus ANDV strain. Failure to evacuate and decontaminate huge mistakes by WHO. No credible evidence of P2P spread. @mcculloughfoundation https://t.co/OtZNBj2yJq
Hantavirus, Andes Strain MV Hondius Outbreak Timeline
4/1/26 Ship departs likely with infected rodents on board
4/11/26 Dutch man dies on ship
4/24/26 Spouse of Dutch man disembarks in St Helena with his body and dies shortly afterwards
4/24/26 Ill British man disembarks and airlifted to Johannesburg improved now out of ICU
4/24/26 n=28 passengers get off and remain well
5/2/26 German dies on ship in harbor at Cape Verde (authorities refused to let the ship dock at the port because of the suspected hantavirus outbreak)
5/2/26 WHO locks passengers in cabins with infected rodents/ventilation system, fresh air on deck not permitted
5/10/26 Remaining passengers disembark in Canary Islands
5/11/26 MV Hondius, still virus-contaminated, likely with rodent reservoir sets sail with 30 crew to Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hantavirus spreads from rodents to humans. False narrative propagated on MSM that Andes strain is spread person-to-person, but never proven (Toledo et al, @IDSA ) World's attention on biocontainment centers and mass PCR testing as 30 crew sail off risking more time on rodent-hantavirus infected ship. Unbelievable. Courtesy @TommyCarrigan5@CNN@drcraigwax@DrKellyVictory https://t.co/X41ysZ4WOb
@DrNeilStone@MaryBowdenMD@grok Average of 27 cases per year less than 60% of adults are fully boosted with the tetanus vaccine. What is that around 100 million people? Out of 100 million not vaccinated only 27 people get tetanus per year.
The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books:
"I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that."
"I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that."
"To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff."
Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?
@elonmusk I wish you would reconsider. What are higher income people going to buy from Tesla now? I drive an S plaid, I don’t think a 3 or Y will satisfy me.
Tennessee dominates! 76-62 over Iowa State. That Okpara dunk 🔥 Tennessee had essentially no chance before the tournament to make it this far. Now look they are dominating.!!!!
@Vol_Hoops We turn the ball over way too much. Hire the strictest turnover-calling refs in the SEC from the last 20 years—age irrelevant. Bring them to practice. Let them whistle every travel. Fix this now. #Vols#VolHoops
@paulsaladinomd I’m not sure they have real butter, maybe on request?I wouldn’t trust them. Texas Roadhouse serves a “butter” that’s actually a whipped buttery spread made mostly from soybean oil, water, palm oils, and additives—no real dairy butter as the base.  that put that on everything